Leveraging Social Media for Program Engagement &

PromotionPaul William Eaton, Educational Leadership

Katie Lowe, College of Education

∗ Facebook (Katie)∗ Instagram∗ Twitter

Affordances

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∗ Snapchat ∗ LinkedIn∗ News Portal ∗ Websites (is yours up to date?) ∗ Blogs

Other Mediums

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∗ Keeps students engaged∗ Provides easy way to promote events∗ Recruitment: Allows people to see what we are doing∗ Allows for Community Building∗ Allows you Maintain Connection with Alumni∗ Allows you to build relationships

nationwide/internationally with experts and students

Benefits

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∗ Consistent Use of Usernames/addresses ∗ @SHSUHIED (IG/Twitter); Facebook/shsuhied∗ @SHSUCOE (IG/Twitter); Facebook/SHSUCOE

∗ Consistent Use of Hashtags∗ #SHSUHIED ∗ #SHSUCOE∗ #COECares

General Principles for Engagement

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∗ Consistent Posting∗ Algorithms Matter

∗ Liking/Retweeting/Sharing from other Accounts∗ Who to follow?∗ Twitter

∗ SHSUCOE: Only follow other SHSU Accounts∗ SHSUHIED: Follow our students, alumni, HIED Leaders

∗ Instagram∗ Only Follow other Professionals, Associations, etc.

General Principles for Engagement

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∗ Co-Hashing∗ SHSUHIED: #SHSUHIED #SHSUCOE #SHSU #sagrad

#sapro #sachat @SHSUOnline∗ SHSUCOE: #coecares #edprep

∗ Who do you tag?∗ SHSUHIED: NASPA, ACPA, Higher Ed Live, TACUSPA

General Principles for Engagement

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∗ Human-Centered/Student-Centered∗ Instagram Takeover ∗ Instagram/Facebook: Stories/Videos∗ Facebook Live∗ “We’re live at the Teacher Recruitment Fair”

Unique Approaches

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∗ Hootsuite; Tweetdeck∗ Give Multiple People Access∗ Social Media Plan

How to Manage

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∗ Consistency is key∗ Templates∗ Common Features of Templates∗ Space for Flexibility (pictures, backgrounds)

∗ Creative Commons Licensing Searching∗ SHSU FLICKR Account∗ Shutterstock

Setting up Your Look

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Examples of How We’re Using It

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Examples

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∗ Instagram∗ Followers?∗ Re-grams/Likes∗ LIVE: See who has viewed it

∗ Twitter∗ Followers?∗ Retweets/Likes

∗ Facebook∗ Show Example through our profiles

Monitoring Data Analytics

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∗ Building a Reputation∗ Professionalism∗ Political Opinions/Statements/Positions (is this the view

of the whole program/dept/college, etc.)

Other Considerations

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#Questions?

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